ANARCHIST CRIME.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 878, 26 July 1910, Page 7

ANARCHIST CRIME.

—v THE ATTACK ON SENOR MAURA. A DEPUTY'S INCITEMENT. ' By Telegraph-Press Assoclatiou-Copyriglit. Madrid, July 24. Roca, the carrier who fired at and wounded Senor Maura, ex-Premier of Spain, in revenge for his suppression of the Barcelona disturbances last year, has declared that ho acted spontaneously. Ho states that ho had no accomplices, and that ho does *ot belong to a secret society. A search of Roca's domicile shows that the crime was of Anarchistic origin. It is recalled that during a recent debate in tho Chamber on. the Barcelona repression measures Senor.lglesias, a Socialist deputy, raised a storm of indignation by remarking that an attack on Senor Maura's person would be admissible, if necessary to prevent his return to power. During the debate the Premier, Senor Cana'lejas, sternly protested against such iucitations, adding 'that the Government would enforce the law with a heavy hand. Senor Canalejas yesterday referred to tho incident. He scathingly denounced Roca's cowardly act, and eulogised Senor Maura's self-sacrifice while in office. There were loud cheers, except from the Republican side. THE BARCELONA TROUBLES. When tho Spanish Government last year called on the reservists in Clatalonia to take up arms in the unpopular war against the Riffs in ilorocco. Barcelona moved to its depths,. . arose in arms against the Government. Barricades were erected in that charming and prosperous city, houses were burned to ashes, monasteries and convents were razed to the ground, museums and libraries annihilated, and deeds of appalling brutality wtro daily committed. Men, women, and children were killed with hidfous accompaniments of cruelty. In a word, both sides having tasted blood forgot liumanitv and lieeanie wild brasts for the nonce, and as unarmed women were butchered bv the frenzied mob so prisoners were put to death in rold blood by the authorities behind tho Hiiclc masonry of the fortress of Monjuich; For a time all Catalonia was believed to be under arms, an'd nobody would have felt surprised had it been announced one morning that a provisional Government had been formed in Barcelona and the secession of the province from Spain decreed. The rigid censorship established by tho Government enabled the most fantastic exaggerations to pass current, and when at last the • veil was raised, the friends of Spain in Europe we're agreeably surprised to learn that things wove not marly so' bad as they had been painted. Senor Maura, the Premier, cannot (wrote Mr. E. J. Dillon in the "Contemporary") be held answerable for tho general discontent, of which 'the second revolutionary splutter was but a symptom, neither is \l fair to condemn his repressive measures, the very swiftness and thoroughness of which undoubtedly hindered much bloodshed and suffering in Barcelona and elsewhere. People and Government, clergy, and episcopato are all responsible, in various degrees, for the almost hopeless state of prostration into which the once virile nation has sunk.

Altogether some- 1500 prisoners were taken, and large numbers of the rebels also escaped over the border into Prance.